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World-Class Rejection Letter

Posted Thu, 02/11/2010 - 14:09

Bummed out from being rejected? Deal out your own justice! The next time you receive a rejection letter from a hoped-for employer, recruiter or publisher, just send them the following template (and feel free to get creative with the underlined portions)

Dear [name of the person who signed the rejection letter],

10 job search habits to break in 2010

Posted Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:05

By Kim Thompson (San Francisco Chronicle Blog)

Here's the challenge: Are the things you're doing to find a job the right things? Are your activities producing results, or are you doing things you've always done and getting little in return?
It's not that you set out to develop job-search habits that don't work. Often, these habits develop over time, until they're barriers, not productive tools.

“Shouldn’t the job go to the most qualified applicant?”

Posted Mon, 01/25/2010 - 17:49

Of course it should, but like my mom used to say “What should be and what is are often 2 different things.”

The sad fact is that getting a job is a different matter than doing it. With the job market being so bad and every potential employer being buried in applications, just getting an interview can be a lot harder than the job it’s for.